Hereditary Chorioretinal Disorders

Dr Gemmy Cheung is currently Deputy Head and Senior Consultant at the Medical Retina Service, Singapore National Eye Centre. She is also head of the retinal research group at the Singapore Eye Research Institute. Her research interests include the risk factors and clinical features of macular diseases that may be unique to Asian populations.Dr. Cheung has published over 150 articles, mostly on age-related macular degeneration, including polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. She has conducted several clinical trials on anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapies. Dr Cheung has been actively involved in training and education and has served as an Instructor for APAO and AAO courses and many other educational programs. She is also a volunteer faculty for the ORBIS flying eye hospital program.  Dr. Cheung has received a number of prestigious awards, including the Macula Society Young Investigator Award (2017), APAO Achievement Award (2017), APAO Nakajima Award (2014), APAO Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award (2013), Bayer Global Ophthalmology Research Award (2012), the Roper-Hall Medal (2005) and the Elizabeth Hunt Medal (Royal College of Ophthalmologists, UK).

• Retinits pigmentosa and allied disorders.- Best's disease.- Congenital X-linked retinoschisis.- Progressive cone dystrophy and cone-rod dystrophy.- Pattern dystrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium.- Stargardt's disease and fundus flavimaculatus.- North Carolina macular dystrophy.- Choroideremia.- Malattia Leventinese or Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy.- Bietti's crystalline dystrophy.- Albinism